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Marked for Death in Horror Film's Next Chapter - “SINISTER 2”

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

From the producers of highly profitable horror films
such as “Paranormal Activity,” “The Purge,” “Insidious,” “Sinister” and “Ouija”
franchises which have grossed more than $1.4 billion worldwide comes the
alarmingly horrifying sequel “Sinister 2.”
After the original “Sinister” grossed over $80 million at the box office
worldwide in 2012, writers Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill are back
again this time with Ciaran Foy who directed the second installment in the
terrifying franchise.

Picking
up where the first film ended, “Sinister 2” follows Deputy So-and-So
investigating the serial murders that his late friend Ellison Oswalt failed to
solve in time. His investigation leads him to a farmhouse where he meets a new
family - Courtney Collins(Shannyn Sossamon)
and her twin sons Zach and Dylan (portrayed by real-life brothers Robert and
Dartanian Sloan) who are on the run from their abusive husband and father,
Clint. They've sought refuge in a friend's uninhabited farmhouse with a dark
past. Unbeknownst to Courtney, Dylan and Zach uncover a set of home-made films
and meet the Ghost Kids contained within them … continuing Bughuul's reign of
terror.

“The
character from the first film, So & So, is someone Courtney doesn’t know at
all – much less that he has become driven to solve the Bughuul mystery. When
his findings lead him to the abandoned house in which we are hiding, his instinct
is to protect them from what they’re running from. All the while, he is trying
to solve and deal with this horror that he can’t quite say out loud.”

The
actress reveals, “Courtney wonders if she can trust him because that’s a big
part of who she is. The scariest parts for me on this movie were the scenes
with the ex-husband. I struggled with those in pre-production and when we
finally filmed the scenes.”

Unlike
Ethan Hawke’s character of Ellison in Sinister, Shannyn Sossamon’s character of
Courtney in Sinister 2 has no idea that she has resettled her family to a place
where murder had occurred. Derrickson explains, “She’s a woman who has recently
fled from the husband who badly mistreated her and her boys, twins named Dylan
and Zach. It’s through the two kids that we come to find out where they’re
taking refuge was the site of a Bughuul disciples’ murder – and of another of
the horrific kill films.

“So
in the new movie, children play much bigger roles; their point of view is much
more significant than it was in Sinister.”
Sossamon elaborates, “Courtney is experiencing her own horror in a bad
marriage. She’s protective of her two boys, and makes the decision to save
herself and them by going on the run from Clint, the abusive husband and
father.

“Sinister
2” opens in cinemas nationwide on September 9 from Pioneer Films.